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Board tables vote on ethics proposal A second reading of a revised Resolution B-08 on ethics and conduct of members the Board of Directors was tabled during a July 15 meeting pending a review by legal counsel. Only Director Steve Jacobs opposed tabling the motion for approval. Director Colette Horn offered the motion to approve revisions to the former Resolution 8-08, Director Ethics and Conduct, as a policy statement on the principles of ethics and conduct to guide directors in the carrying out of their roles on the Board.
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Parks revisits his his seven-year roller coaster ride Doug Parks’s seven years as a member of the Board of Directors coincides with the roller-coaster history of Ocean Pines during that period. The lows were turbulent and divisive, the highs as full of achievement as they possibly could be. Fortunate for Parks and the Board, he’s leaving at a high point.
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Tardy ballots, but vote count still on for Aug. 10 Voters in Ocean Pines did not begin receiving election materials until the week of July 25, about a week late By TOM STAUSS Publisher n a June 2 meeting of the Ocean Pines Elections Committee, chairman Tom Piatti said that ballots would be mailed by the Ocean Pines Association’s new elections vendor in Washington State beginning on July 11. It didn’t happen. All the election materials the vendor needed to begin the mailing July 11 had been supplied by the OPA, and on a Zoom call on July 12 the vendor, Election Trust of Bainbridge Island, Washington, indicated no problem with the schedule, according to Piatti. But follow-up checking by the committee determined that the ballots didn’t arrive at a post office near Seattle until the 18th, and the actual mailing began the following day, Piatti said.
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In accordance with the four or five business days normally needed to mail the ballots across country, they began arriving in Ocean Pines on Tuesday, July 25, a day before that in some more urban areas of the mid-Atlantic. “We had a bonafide contract for the mailing fof 7,781 ballots,” Piatti said, with roughly ten percent of the lots in Ocean Pines ineligible to vote because of unpaid assessments or alleged compliance violations. “We still need to finish the election, but there will be repercussions for the late ballots, believe me,” Piatti said. In a press release issued by the OPA, he made it clear the problem was not with the U.S. Postal Service. To Page 3
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